1 map : col., 30 x 18 cm.
Originally known as Guy, the name of the town was changed to Albion in 1901. A British settler persuaded the town to make the name change after an early name for the region: New Albion.
Plat map from the Whitman County...

1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Garfield Washington. Scale 400'=1". Located eighteen miles northeast of Colfax, the town of Garfield was platted by landowner Samuel J. Tant in 1881. The plat was filed and the town...

1 map: col., 39 x 27 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Colton, Staley and Diamond. Colton scale 400'=1". Staley scale 400'=1". Diamond scale 400'=1". The town of Colton, eleven miles south of Pullman, began as a settlement in 1879. ...

1 map: col, 43 x 30 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Hooper, Chambers and La Crosse scale 400'=1". Chambers has been described as an "odd-shaped town", consisting of one to five block streets. The shortest street, Granite, ran along...

1 map: col., 40 x 32 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington. Scale 400'=1". Located between Union Flat, the earliest settlement founded in Whitman County (1869), and Cow Creek (1879), Union Town was named by Jesuit missionary Fr....

1 map: col., 42 x 34 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Steptoe. Scale 400'=1". The area now known as the town of Steptoe was called Steptoe Station at first. This is because the town began as a siding, or flag stop, for the railroad....

1 map: col., 44 x 30 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of St. John, and Winona scale 400'=1". At Pleasant Valley Creek, eighteen miles northwest of Colfax, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. platted and filed the town in 1888. The...

1 map: col., 44 x 35 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Thornton and Elberton. Scale 400'=1". Elberton, named after Elbert, the deceased son of plat filer Sylvester M. Wait in 1886, began as the site of a mill. Located 12 miles...

1 map: col., 23 x 34 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Palouse. Scale: 400'=1". The word Palouse stems from the name of native tribes in the area that were perhaps known as the Palus, Palost, Pallah, or Palusha people. When French...

1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Malden. Scale 400'=1". Located twenty miles north of Colfax, the town of Malden, Washington was named by the then Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway--Mr....

1 map: col., 17 x 20 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Texas City Scale: 400'=1". At one time the small community of Texas City was also known as Texas Ferry. Located on the Snake River, you can perhaps derive the town's economic...

1 map: col., 69 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Colfax. Scale: 400'=1". The farming town of Colfax (located thirteen miles northwest of Pullman) was named in 1872 in honor of President Grant's Vice President, Mr. Schuyler Colfax,...

1 map: col., 38 x 26 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County cities of Rock Lake City and Lamont. Scale: 400'=1". The settlement at Rock Lake was platted on its southwest side in 1903 by Willis Anson Evans. Evans bought three acres of land, and in...

1 map: col., 27 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Penawawa. Scale: 600'=1". Named after a nearby creek at Union Flat, the town of Penawawa lay twelve miles west of Almota. Its first permanent settler, Mr. Ed Johnson, arrived in 1871...